San Jose State hate crime: Black student files $5 million claim [View all]
Source: San Jose Mercury News
The victim of a racially charged bullying case at San Jose State has filed a $5 million claim against the school, exposing for the first time that a dormitory resident advisor ignored an obvious early sign that "a potentially explosive and dangerous situation was developing in Room 704.''
The young black man, identified as Donald Williams Jr., plans to follow up the claim with a lawsuit if the university rejects the claim as expected, his Beverly Hills lawyer Carl E. Douglas has said.
The claim alleges breach of contract, negligence and violations of the Unruh Act by failing to provide equal housing accomodations during late summer and fall of the current school year.
Williams, then 17, was allegedly subjected to a litany of abuse by four of his white suite mates, including being called "Three-fifths, " referring to the way the government once counted blacks as just a fraction of a person. When he protested, they dubbed him "Fraction." They outfitted the four-bedroom dormitory suite they shared with a Confederate flag. They locked him in his room. They wrote the "N-word" on a dry-erase board in the living room. They fastened a bicycle lock around his neck and told him they lost the keys, then tried it again later. Interviewed later by campus police, some of the roommates called their actions pranks.
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